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Colorado pioneers

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survivor of the sinking of the Titanic (1867–1932), women's rights activist, philanthropist

Madam C. J. Walker

American entrepreneur (1867-1919)

Frances Xavier Cabrini

Italian-American Catholic nun, misionary and saint (1850-1917)

Helen Hunt Jackson

American novelist, poet, writer, activist (1830–1885)

James Beckwourth

American mountain man (1798-1866)

Cathay Williams

American slave, chef, Buffalo soldier and Female wartime crossdresser

American formerly enslaved person, community leader, philanthropist (1800–1885)

William Jackson Palmer

American engineer and American Civil War recipient of the Medal of Honor (1836–1909)

Julia Archibald Holmes

American activist (1838-1887)

American physician (1870–1960)

Caroline M. Nichols Churchill

American feminist (1833-1926)

Frederick Walker Pitkin

governor of Colorado, United States from 1879 to 1883

American physician (1871–1952)

American physician and suffragist

Minnie Reynolds Scalabrino

American suffragist

American naturalist, artist, taxidermist and scientific collector (1831 – 1881)